Recipient of Multiple NEA Grants Recipient of Multiple Writing Awards including the World's Best Short, Short Story Contest Extensive Teaching and Publishing Career in Fiction, Non-fiction, and Editing Plain Air is, in many ways, a literary homage to Sherwood Anderson's famous collection of stories Winesburg, Ohio Michael Martone is an enthusiast of the Postal Service, postcards, trains, the number four, Quonset huts, and the Flyover